Download or read book Firebridge to Skyshore written by Siobhan Logan and published by Original Plus. This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Imaginary and Mythical Places written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heavens and hells of the world's religions and the "far, far away" legends cannot be seen or visited, but they remain an integral part of culture and history. This encyclopedia catalogs more than 800 imaginary and mythological lands from all over the world, including fairy realms, settings from Arthurian lore, and kingdoms found in fairy tales and political and philosophical works, including Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Atlantis. From al A'raf, the limbo of Islam, to Zulal, one of the many streams that run through Paradise, entries give the literary origin of each site, explain its cultural context, and describe its topical features, listing variations on names when applicable. Cross-referenced for ease of use, this compendium will prove useful to scholars, researchers or anyone wishing to tour the unseen landscapes of myth and legend.

Download or read book The mediated Arctic written by Johannes Riquet and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped – and are currently transforming – the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and poeticise various elements of Arctic geography, and in doing so negotiate pressing environmental, (geo)political, and social concerns. From the plasmatic force of ice in Disney’s Frozen films to the spatial vocabulary of circumpolar Indigenous hip hop, it addresses Arctic geographical imaginaries in a wide range of media, including literature, cinema, comic books, music videos, and cartographic art. The book brings together a plurality of voices from within and outside the circumpolar North, both in terms of the works analysed and in its own collaborative scholarly practice. The book bridges Indigenous and Southern mediations of the Arctic and combines different epistemologies to do justice to these imaginaries in their diversity.

Download or read book Under The Shell written by David Wilkinson and published by Inspired Quill. This book was released on 2018-06-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engalise is a city under siege. Without a government or the usual series of formal laws, relative peace is kept under the premise of the Ten Free Rights of the Individual. Freedom Protection Agent Jaq Pilakin specialises in investigating violations against the First Right: life. As a freelancer, she’s forced to pick up the less lucrative cases cast aside by the big agencies, and stumbles into a scene where an artillery strike by the besieging forces has left a plumber dead under the rubble. As Pilakin digs deeper into the case, she finds a trail of murders - and a would-be murderer finds her. When she finally identifies the perpetrator, it turns out she holds Engalise’s entire fate in her own bloodstained hands.

Download or read book Firebridge to Skyshore written by Idris Caffrey and published by Original Plus. This book was released on 2009 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Between Land Sky written by Dixie Boyle and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I sit on my mountaintop,And watch the lightning zing and popDown on a canyon or hillThe clouds looking like an anvilIm looking here, there, everywhereElectricitys in the air.

Download or read book Fugitive Poses written by Gerald Robert Vizenor and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native sovereignty, Gerald Vizenor contends, is not possessed but expressed. It emerges not from practicing vengeful and exclusionary policies and politics, or by simple recourse to territoriality, but by turning to Native transmotion, the forces and processes of creativity and imagination lying at the heart of Native world-views and actions. Overturning long-held scholarly and popular assumptions, Vizenor offers a vigorous examination of tragic cultures and victimry.

Download or read book Hotel Alpha written by Mark Watson and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three decades ago, the charismatic Howard York built the empire of his dreams: the Hotel Alpha. It was once the finest in London, but over the years, as the world around it has moved on at an ever more dizzying rate, the hotel has struggled to keep pace. Graham, the Alpha's concierge, has been behind the front desk since the day the hotel opened and has witnessed every stage of its history. Chaz, Howard's blind adopted son, has almost never ventured outside its walls. Both of them view the Alpha as their sanctuary, the place that gives them everything they need. But both of them must now accept that the Alpha no longer offers them the life they most want, and that Howard's vision has been built on secrets as well as dreams ...

Download or read book Over Land Over Sea written by Kathleen Bell and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 101 poems expressing solidarity with the refugees who are currently receiving so little welcome as they take to boats and rafts to cross the Mediterranean and make their way with difficulty through Europe. Readers are invited to take a view of the situation which is not governed by the fear and hatred whipped up by the language of media and many politicians. All proceeds from sales of the book will be shared between the charities: Medecins Sans Frontieres, Leicester City of Sanctuary and Nottingham Refugee Forum.

Download or read book Traditions on the Move Essays in Honour of Jarich Oosten written by and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creatures of the Intertidal Zone written by Susan Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan is regarded as a witty, lyrical and inventive poet, who deals with social and environmental issues as well as with the more intimate and personal. Her first full-length collection, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, has just been published by Cinnamon Press and was launched at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre in Cardiff. The book was written after Susan was awarded a Churchill Travel Fellowship to journey through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland in the footsteps of Gudrid, an intrepid tenth/eleventh century female Viking.

Download or read book The Heirs of Columbus written by Gerald Vizenor and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Vizenor's novel reclaims the story of Chrisopher Columbus on behalf of Native Americans by declaring the explorer himself to be a descendent of early Mayans and follows the adventures of his modern-day, mixedblood heirs as they create a fantastic tribal nation.

Download or read book Signifying Animals written by Roy Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

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Download or read book Love in a Headscarf written by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘At the age of thirteen, I knew I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him. Then he would convert to Islam and become a devoted Muslim.’ Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf – she wants to fall in love. Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque Imams, she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right, Muslim-style. Shelina’s captivating journey begins as a search for the One, but along the way she also discovers her faith and herself. A memoir with a hilarious twist from one of Britain’s leading female Muslim writers, Love in a Headscarf is an entertaining, fresh and unmissable insight into what it means to be a young British Muslim woman. Shelina Janmohamed is a columnist for the Muslim News and EMEL magazine and regularly contributes to the Guardian., the BBC and Channel 4. She is much in demand as a commentator on radio and television and has appeared on programmes including Newsnight and The Heaven and Earth Show. Her award-winning blog, Spirit 21, is hugely popular. Love in a Headscarf is her first book.

Download or read book The Road from Damascus written by Robin Yassin-Kassab and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is summer 2001 and Sami Traifi has escaped his fraying marriage and minimal job prospects to visit Damascus. In search of his roots and himself, he instead finds a forgotten uncle in a gloomy back room, and an ugly secret about his beloved father... Returning to London, Sami finds even more to test him as his young wife Muntaha reveals that she is taking up the hijab. Sami embarks on a wilfully ragged journey in the opposite direction, away from religion – but towards what? As Sami struggles to understand Muntaha’s newly-deepened faith, her brother Ammar’s hip hop Islamism and his father-in-law’s need to see grandchildren, so his emotional and spiritual unraveling begins to accelerate. And the more he rebels, the closer he comes to betraying those he loves, edging ever-nearer to the brink of losing everything... Set against a powerfully-evoked backdrop of multi-ethnic, multi-faith London, The Road from Damascus explores themes as big as love, faith and hope, and as fundamental as our need to believe in something bigger than ourselves, whatever that might be.

Download or read book The Holy Woman written by Qaisra Shahraz and published by Black Amber. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and compelling family drama. Love and betrayal set in a wealthy Muslim community, with all pressures and conflicts that modern life and old traditions bring. From the author of Typhoon.